Summary and Quiz
Explore key AWS security and compliance services such as the Shared Responsibility Model, KMS, WAF, Shield, GuardDuty, Inspector, and others. Understand their functions and relationships to secure cloud environments, then test your understanding with a quiz to reinforce key concepts and application.
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In this lesson, we’ll summarize what we’ve learned in this chapter and test our knowledge with a short quiz.
Summary
In this chapter, we learned about security and compliance services offered by AWS. Here’s a brief summary of the services we covered:
Shared Responsibility Model: In the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, AWS is responsible for the security “of” the cloud, which includes the infrastructure, hardware, and services. Customers are responsible for security “in” the cloud, covering their data, applications, identity and access management, and configuring services securely. AWS secures the underlying infrastructure, while customers must secure their usage of AWS services.
AWS KMS: KMS is used to manage encryption keys in AWS. AWS provides both AWS-managed keys and customer-managed keys.
AWS WAF: WAF is a network firewall used to protect our applications from malicious access. We can configure related web ACLs to defend our resources from specific types of attacks, including XSS scripting, SQL ...